Example sentences of "[vb pp] [noun prp] for [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was she who had interviewed Meg for the Old Rectory and Meg now found it difficult to connect that confident , tweeded , slightly aggressive woman with the two gentle old people she knew . |
| 2 | It then bores on in this vein until our hero — Bjorn Borg , unmistakably — has won Weembledon for the fifth time consecutively . |
| 3 | A young woman called Simone Thiroux had eyed Modigliani for a long time . |
| 4 | De Benedetti disclosed that Hewlett-Packard Co had also approached Olivetti for a possible alliance , but declined to elaborate . |
| 5 | You have n't seen Alexander for a long time , have you ? |
| 6 | Ten years now he had lived in Vienna , fourteen since he had quit Russia for the last time , twenty-two since the day he had realized his boyhood ambition to become an officer in the St. Petersburg Grenadiers . |
| 7 | Later , after she had visited Joy for the last time and he had filled her arms with fruit , as he had on every visit , she made her way to the cemetery . |
| 8 | Naturally , what the duke had in mind was his own political interest , and his managers duly picked a man named Hamilton for the vacant charge , a gentleman whose brother was a bailie of one of the royal burghs in which the Montrose faction took an interest . |
| 9 | In March 1942 Stalin once again selected Vlasov for an important task ; he was named deputy commander of the Volkhov Front , on the northern flank of the Russian line . |
| 10 | But Gould had quite possibly thanked Darwin for the wrong present . |
| 11 | She left shortly , having surprised Dinah for the first time in her life ; and there were to be more surprises . |
| 12 | The countryside , here called Wessex for the first time , village community life , the joyousness of seasonal festivities , the importance of music — all familiar from Under the Greenwood Tree — are integrated into a more complex story than any Hardy had yet attempted . |
| 13 | I 've known Becky for a long time and I never thought she 'd go public with what is a private afffair … it may in part be naivity … but I think some of it was vengence . |
| 14 | He said : ‘ I have known Graham for a long time but there will be no sentiment when he picks the England team . |
| 15 | Finney had known Harwood for a long time before finally working with him on the film of The Dresser . |
| 16 | West Bromwich boss Ardiles , an enthusiastic 15-handicap golfer , said : ‘ I 've known Vicente for a long time . |
| 17 | But , since you 're so interested , I 've known Nicole for a long time . ’ |
| 18 | Denis Smith says … he 's known John for a long time and has just the experience and talent that Oxford need |
| 19 | ‘ I 've just signed Schwarzenegger for a three-movie deal , my wife 's oil paintings are going to be shown in a major London gallery , my son got first-class honours at Oxford and I 've won half a million on the pools . ’ |
| 20 | They 're both pale and passionate these days and she has n't mentioned Napoleon for a long time . |